As jobs vanish and wages fall, Beijing struggles to balance high-tech ambitions with rising unemployment and social unrest ...

(Mark Hertzberg/Zuma Press) Tariffs on Chinese imports are poised to squeeze U.S.-based shoe companies. China is the largest manufacturer of shoes to the U.S. with about 58% of footwear imports ...

from 100% on Chinese-made electric vehicles to 15% on clothes and shoes. Trump's tariffs strike at the heart of China's manufacturing juggernaut - a web of factories, assembly lines and supply chains ...

framing himself as a 21st-century manufacturing missionary whose goal is to create more than 100,000 jobs in the poorest parts of Africa. Rwanda is next. “In China, no one wants to make shoes ...

"China's consumer market is undergoing tremendous transformation," said Tang Jiansheng, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Consumer Council. "Future growth will stem from product excellence, ...

I collect new panel data from Chinese shoe companies from 1993-2004. By exploiting the discontinuity of government enforcement efforts for the footwear sector in 1995 and the differences in authentic ...